It's shockingly simple...

So near and yet so far!

Hillary believes herself to be a better candidate for the Democrats, and a better President for the country, than Barack Obama.

The problem for McCain is that he himself has depicted lobbyists as being the Devil Incarnate.

Barack Obama has made an original contribution to the debate over gun control.

Sometimes being a "maverick" isn't as glorious as one thinks it will be.

It is a wonderful thing when truly stupid ideas return to bite the people that promoted them.

Anyone who sends their children to a religious school may be permitted an 80% tax deduction of the tuition.

In many ways, Martin Luther King was a good man - certainly a highly intelligent man. Well read, well spoken, influential well beyond his life. But equal to all the Presidents of the nation?

The conservatives have rightly complained about the fiasco that was the CNN/YouTube debate, to say nothing of Chris Matthews' execrable moderating. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it doesn't fit any better on that side.